New UNH study connects 13,000 years of small mammal adaptation to warming — and more

When it comes to adapting to the changing environment of the Great Basin in the North American West, for small mammals, warming associated with climate change is only part of the problem: Humans have played a role, too.

When UNH oyster conservation efforts received an award recently, professor Ray Grizzle shared the honors with not only The Nature Conservancy (TNC), his partner in restoring oysters to Great Bay since 2006. Nearly 100 local citizen-scientists and eight million microscopic oyster larvae also had a piece in the Gulf of Maine Visionary Award from the Gulf of Maine Council.

Gregg Moore and Alyson Eberhardt from UNH enlisted students from Newburyport's Molin Upper Elementary School in their effort to stabilize the dunes of Plum Island.
Few people feel the sea’s power to giveth —and taketh away — more palpably than the

A prolific undergraduate career behind him, a new engineer looks ahead

Last November, the presidents of China and the U.S. forged a commitment to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Other governments across the world are investing billions in renewable energy projects, and the U.S. government alone has a $34 billion portfolio in such investments.

Rising seas pose significant risks to New Hampshire coastal communities and ecosystems, cultural resources and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and climate change-driven health impacts threaten to affect Granite State and New England residents who are vulnerable to rising temperatures, more precipitation and severe weather events.